Like me, John McGuirk has gone to the bother of actually reading the official report about Tuam and has found that it gives a very different view to the one wrongly held by most people. gript.ie/mcguirk-the-di…

Something I hadn't realised - Ireland has the most expensive electricity in the world (apart from 65k population Bermuda), with prices 59% higher than France and 2.4 times higher than average prices in the United States.

I've lived in Dublin 12 my entire life and seen and heard of some mental stuff in the area in that time Until 24 hours ago, none of that included a stabbing rampage targeting an elderly woman and a mother with her children But we're forbidden to discuss what caused it it seems

Irish public spending on welfare/redistribution as a share of all spending is now the highest in the OECD, at 58%. Yet more evidence of the left-leaning nature of Irish politics to add to this recent discussion. thecurrency.news/articles/19999…

Transfers would not save Humphreys here. Even if she got 60% of Gavin's second prefs to 5 or 10% for Connolly, Connolly would still win.

How did we find ourselves lost in this sea of Presidential mediocrity? My column, ⁦Irish Mail on Sunday⁩

Ex-tenant owed €3,300 by Jim Gavin 'felt sorry for him' via RTÉ News rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

Watch Obama roast Trump youtu.be/HHckZCxdRkA?si… via YouTube

This morning I'm writing about some hard truths emerging from #aras25 #aras2025. Lessons for both sides. Full article is at the link below. Some key bullets from it include... For the united left and Catherine Connolly (CC): 🔴 Most of what feels like a “smear” is just her

I was talking to a person who works in health care this morning, said person I would say would have been pro vax, pro refugee two years ago, but now is on the verge of far right, Said person said the health service is in a shambles, operations canceled even though the surgeons

Catherine Connolly's Kanturk moment. Hard to see how the @socdems and The Labour Party Ireland can continue to defend such a person. #Aras25

I wish Leo Varadkar would just come out and admit that he is a Soc Dem rather than continue to alienate the Fine Gael core voter

📊 RED C POLL 📊 Catherine Connolly - 44% (+8) Heather Humphreys - 25% (nc) Jim Gavin - 10% (-2) Undecided - 21% (-6) Read here - businesspost.ie/politics/exclu…

MCGUIRK: The collapse of the FG fantasy gript.ie/mcguirk-the-co… via gript

LAURA PERRINS: As a new report makes abundantly clear, Ireland's neutered middle class voters are paying more tax than people almost anywhere else in the western world: gript.ie/perrins-irelan…

Over half of adults in Ireland’s emergency homeless accommodation are foreign nationals according to the most recent data: gript.ie/50-of-adults-i…